The purpose of this game is that the students will reinforce their speaking abilities through a dialogue, which is based on an interview. The students will ask information and interact with each other.
Im order to do this, the activity will be performed as a game from Communicative Approach in a seventh grade year elementary school class.
The topic is from unit three, "The World of Sports", from the textbook "Travelers" given by the ministry of education.
The objective is that the students will learn how to ask for information, express idead and opinions, including the vocabulary seen in the lessons.
The students will form pairs, they can choose their partner. One student will be the interviewer while the other will imitate a famous athlete. The students will create their dialogues. The only requirement is that they must include vocabulary related to sports. This interview will long between five to seven minutes. The rol of the teacher here is that he/she is only a facilitator of the information. He/ She will guide the students, however, the studens will have to do all the work. In the previous class the studens saw interviews videos, therefore, they can use that as a model.
The only materials needed are the textbook or notebook to look for vocabulary.
What we learnt through this is that communication is an essencial tool in the acquisition of a foreign language, and we as teachers, need to take advantage of this tool.
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Communicative Approach
Interviewing Athletes